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On Sunday a woman awoke to a strange man in her bed.  The perpetrator is being called the “Cuddler” and according to the news, Police do not think this perpetrator is the same guy as the “Georgetown Cuddler”. The “Georgetown Cuddler” was used to refer to a string of sexual assaults that have taken place […]

I had my first confrontation with a street harasser today! It was everything I had hoped for!!!!! I was walking to work this morning and was passing a bus stop, when a guy who was walking in the opposite direction to get to the bus stop made eye contact with me. Usually if that happens […]

I went to the Georgetown Barnes & Noble, on M Street, with my boyfriend. We split up when we got upstairs – he went to look at fiction novels, I stayed to flip through design books. I noticed a man sitting in a chair, facing the aisle that I was looking through, but didn’t think […]

I’ve been harassed on the street many times since moving to DC this fall, but one incident that sticks out in my mind happened in front of the Chop’t restaurant on 12th St. near the intersection with H. It was in September, I had just gotten a salad at Chop’t and had taken it outside […]

A post we received over the holiday break: I decided to take a different tactic in handling one of the “hey, baby” homeless guys outside. My normal response is to get angry and curse, but my new method had very different results. One of the homeless men sitting on the street said “Hey, baby, happy […]